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Chuck Lorre is also famous for one other thing. The After Show Vanity cards.
You can read them all here, also in a book.
http://www.chucklorre.com/inde...

Dude, Reddit? Come on. The whole place is infested with millennials that think they found the greatest site ever and of course every one of them thinks they know everything because the whole herd of them all do the same thing. I found the episode Majority Rule from The Orville to be apropos in how it makes fun of sites like Reddit.

Also, the idea for a children's book from Chuck Lorre's vanity card #431.

A whole generation of idiots and losers.

http://www.chucklorre.com/imag...

I don't know if BBT really uses a laugh track, or just studio noise, or a combination, but they claim they do not use a laugh track.

The laugh track completely ruins what little humour there may be in the show.

One of the vanity cards at the end of an episode in an earlier season (4 or 5, I think) showed a stitched panoramic picture of the "laugh track", which was indeed a live studio audience. Here's what Google turned up for Vanity Card #282.

Hopefully you now feel the pain of how shit your complaints are.

Chuck Lorre Productions, #431

I'm confused as to why a poorly designed web site means affordable health care is a bad idea.

Sorry, I haven't bothered to memorize any of them, just laughed when I noticed.
But here's one of his vanity cards that air after the credit of every episode that mentions it:

http://www.chucklorre.com/index-mnm.php?p=293

But c'mon, what balls on EMI. Because they signed a contract that said EMI could only sell the records if they were intact, EMI tried to weasel out by saying they weren't selling records. But then I remember this is one of the labels behind the RIAA extortion scheme, so I shouldn't be surprised.

It's just business as usual for the MAFIAA.

Remember the hollywood writers strike 3-4 years ago? The main issue there was getting paid for web-broadcasts and DVDs. Prior to the strike the studios' standard approach to web-broadcasts was to pay no royalties because they weren't charging anything for the downloads. Obviously the advertisements on the webpage and the streaming ads before and during the web-broadcast were generating revenue but because they weren't charging for the broadcast itself (unlike the way they charge affiliates for the right to broadcast over the air) they were paying the writers bupkiss.

The BSG writers even swore off "webisodes" after the first set because Sci-Fi/NBC pulled that shit on them.

Here's what Chuck Lorre (creator of The Big Bang Theory) said about the strike:
http://www.chucklorre.com/index-2hm.php?p=197

And ads for products like Purell and Lysol certainly don't help any.

Chuck Lorre (creator/writer for The Big Bang Theory and a bunch of other sitcoms like 2.5 Men, and amazingly a former scientologist) recently wrote that, "Purell is the new face of fear."

I was sitting 4 or 5 seats away from a couple of early teen boys whose parents were two rows up. The scene where the little girl's leg bone was being fought over by the dogs or when the cleaver ended up in the guy's skull did not elicit any attempts by the parents to stop the viewing, yet when the two main characters began to screw in the ship, Mom was turned around and motioning for them to cover their eyes. Are you freaking kidding me? These Sex vs. Violence discussions always bring me back to a Vanity Card by Chuck Lorre: http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php?p=155

My summary had a suggested solution, but it was edited (Significant improvement overall, thanks eds).

I have been waiting for TV advertisers to come out with something like graphic novels that we can go through frame by frame. The novels could be around 10 seconds instead of 30, spend all the extra money on producing worthwhile content.

At one or two frames of video per page of graphic novel, I'm guessing that you should be able to get hundreds of pages in a 5-10 second spot (30fps * 10=150 or 300 pages). This seems high, anyone know if this is accurate?

The trick is to take ads and intersperse them with the text. You could get a bunch of half-page or full-page ads in with the content, or just have one constant add across the bottom (Preferably with a URL so the non-tivos can go find the same content on the web).

A very primitave version of this is done with Two and a half Men. The producer has created what he calls "Vanity Cards" where he writes what are essentially little blog entry and flashes it on the screen for a fraction of a second.

They are usually pretty interesting, my wife and I always back up, pause and take a minute to read the card. There is an archive of all his vanity cards here: http://www.chucklorre.com/text/